TO: Andrea Ghez, UCLA Galactic Center Group, Nobel Prize in 2020
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: Your homepages at UCLA, Nobel, Wikipedia, and YouTube

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First email: 23 May 2024 @ 6:19 AM   (Updated)

Comment/Questions: Scholars seem somewhat reluctant to put too much pressure on big bang cosmology. They would rather put it on the LambdaCDM model (and even the Standard Model for Particle Physics). Are the results coming in from the JWST opening the way to question the voracity of big bang cosmology? Could exponential notation of the Planck base units as the start be enough?

Dear Prof. Dr. Andrea Ghez:

Of course, one can always hope that you might answer my question, but I see you have many co-authors and a very large staff of experts and my questions are “too newbie” for a Nobel laureate! 

At the very least, let me say, “Congratulations on a most remarkable SMBH–GC–S2–Sgr * career.  I am reading your 1998, Ghez-Morris-Becklin 28-page report  and your v2-7 Feb 2024 report.  You’ve become the world’s expert and all the accolades are important. The NAS membership included! (I’ll be sending Marcia McNutt a copy of this note.)

My interests center around the Planck scale, well beyond measurements by instrumentation. Peebles in his Nobel acceptance told the world that we do not know what happens in the first seconds of the start of the universe.  Most would say something about the Big Bang and inflation and echo some form of Hawking’s “infinitely hot, infinitely dense, everything, everywhere” statement.

You and your colleagues of the SMBH-GC are doing what Einstein instructed — it seems you are not holding back but sharing all the new information and new insights you can garner. Yet, what if Hawking and all the others didn’t do the most simple thing and fill in the blanks between the Planck units within the first seconds of the universe.  He never looked at the Planck scale using base-2 to the first seconds.  Had he done that little bit of tedious but simple math, I believe he would have been forced to acknowledge a simple but very different starting point. My most recent writing about it is here: https://81018.com/reformatting/

You are the expert on star formation close to a blackhole. I am just learning about all the variegation of studies around blackholes. But don’t you get the feeling that the two are intimately connected? As variegated as the blackhole has become, it seems we still have only scratched the surface.

Thank you.

Most sincerely,

Bruce

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